8 Conclusion: Closing the Policy Circle
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Sarah Louise Nash
Abstract
This concluding chapter summarizes the arguments discussed in the book before turning to the future, extrapolating what these arguments could mean for future work on the migration and climate change nexus. The moral, so to speak, of this story is that changing policy making on migration and climate change does not just imply coming up with new policy ideas, populating a new policy domain with mentions of migration and climate change, or being open to a sprinkling of new faces in policy arenas. Instead, it entails reconsidering how people understand and talk about migration and climate change and undertaking a process of self-reflection: what perspective do people have on the issue and why? This does not necessarily involve interrogating the reasons why people are moving, or the extent to which people connect changes in weather patterns to their decisions to move or their inability to do so. Rather, this involves a process of critical reflection of the motives, both explicit and implicit, of the policy juggernaut. This perspective is really important if the migration and climate change nexus is going to exist as anything but a dire warning of the realities of climate change, and if policy responses are going to be transformative rather than buttresses for the current global state of affairs.
Abstract
This concluding chapter summarizes the arguments discussed in the book before turning to the future, extrapolating what these arguments could mean for future work on the migration and climate change nexus. The moral, so to speak, of this story is that changing policy making on migration and climate change does not just imply coming up with new policy ideas, populating a new policy domain with mentions of migration and climate change, or being open to a sprinkling of new faces in policy arenas. Instead, it entails reconsidering how people understand and talk about migration and climate change and undertaking a process of self-reflection: what perspective do people have on the issue and why? This does not necessarily involve interrogating the reasons why people are moving, or the extent to which people connect changes in weather patterns to their decisions to move or their inability to do so. Rather, this involves a process of critical reflection of the motives, both explicit and implicit, of the policy juggernaut. This perspective is really important if the migration and climate change nexus is going to exist as anything but a dire warning of the realities of climate change, and if policy responses are going to be transformative rather than buttresses for the current global state of affairs.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- List of Figures and Tables viii
- List of Abbreviations ix
- About the Author xi
- Series Preface xiii
- Foreword xv
- Migration and Climate Change: The Construction of a Nexus 1
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Episodes of Policy Making on Migration and Climate Change 2010–18
- From Cancun to Paris: The Coming of Age of a Policy Field 23
- A Spotlight on Negotiating Mobility in Paris: Ushering in Another New Era for the Migration and Climate Change Nexus 65
- From Paris to Katowice: Moving from Agenda Setting to Recommendations 85
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Deconstructing Policy Making on Migration and Climate Change
- The Process of Naming: Deconstructing Terminology Used to Conceptualise the Migration and Climate Change Nexus 111
- Struggles to Locate Mobile People at the Centre of the Migration and Climate Change Nexus 137
- Interrogating a Notable Silence: Human Rights and the Migration and Climate Change Nexus 157
- Conclusion: Closing the Policy Circle 175
- Notes 191
- References 193
- Index 217
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- List of Figures and Tables viii
- List of Abbreviations ix
- About the Author xi
- Series Preface xiii
- Foreword xv
- Migration and Climate Change: The Construction of a Nexus 1
-
Episodes of Policy Making on Migration and Climate Change 2010–18
- From Cancun to Paris: The Coming of Age of a Policy Field 23
- A Spotlight on Negotiating Mobility in Paris: Ushering in Another New Era for the Migration and Climate Change Nexus 65
- From Paris to Katowice: Moving from Agenda Setting to Recommendations 85
-
Deconstructing Policy Making on Migration and Climate Change
- The Process of Naming: Deconstructing Terminology Used to Conceptualise the Migration and Climate Change Nexus 111
- Struggles to Locate Mobile People at the Centre of the Migration and Climate Change Nexus 137
- Interrogating a Notable Silence: Human Rights and the Migration and Climate Change Nexus 157
- Conclusion: Closing the Policy Circle 175
- Notes 191
- References 193
- Index 217
